In a second term, Obama may waste some time on Drug War

Should President Barack Obama win a second term in November GQ is reporting he'll work on a domestic issue most people without a sudden craving for Taco Bell care nothing about:

According to ongoing discussions with Obama aides and associates, if the president wins a second term, he plans to tackle another American war that has so far been successful only in perpetuating more misery: the four decades of The Drug War.

Don't expect miracles. There is very little the president can do by himself. And pot-smokers shouldn't expect the president to come out in favor of legalizing marijuana. But from his days as a state senator in Illinois, Obama has considered the Drug War to be a failure, a conflict that has exacerbated the problem of drug abuse, devastated entire communities, changed policing practices for the worse, and has led to a generation of young children, disproportionately black and minority, to grow up in dislocated homes, or in none at all.

Back in April Obama told Latin American leaders he was open to "a conversation" about drug laws but said "legalization is not the answer."

[GQ, ABC News]